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maybe so--but i did not know that training/practice/experience with a gun would eliminate chance.
particularly in really nervewracking situations.
maybe that is the secret of training with a gun--that you eliminate all contingency.
i mean, i have been playing piano for 35 years--i have a shitload of training--i play in situations i can control, but which remain nervewracking--i would wager that i have as high a level of control over that instrument, have put more time in with it, as anyone of my age has with a gun---and yet i find that arbitrary things still go wrong. that you cant eliminate chance.
but maybe you're right: maybe a gun is different from any other object, and the zone around it magically transforms people from agents capable of error into perfect beings who can talk with absolute assurance about all possible situations.
i didnt know that about guns.
i guess i missed out.
and not to worry--i would not carry a gun---i dont like them---but i still am agnostic on matters of legislation.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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